EARTH can be a confusing enough place these days but explorers from thousands of years ago had it much worse. Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary ...

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. When you purchase through links on ...

A new interactive map, GlobalBuildingAtlas, has been released, featuring 2.75 billion buildings in 3D worldwide. Developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich using satellite images ...

We now have a better understanding of what’s beneath our feet (Credits: Getty Images/iStockphoto) A new way of mapping the Earth’s inner core has been developed by taking a page from deep space ...

5,000-year old 'cultic space' discovered in Iraq dates to time of the world's first cities Massive 3,000-year-old Maya site in Mexico depicts the cosmos and the 'order of the universe,' study claims ...

A mesmerising time-lapse of the world's rainfall and snowfall over the past year is being used by Nasa to track the factors behind climate change. It is the most detailed map of Earth's precipitation ...

A new satellite called Sentinel 5A has started sending back its first images, capturing fresh views of Earth's ozone hole.

Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit can take virtual tours of some of the novel’s locations thanks to a new interactive map by Google. While the book famously has a hand drawn map of Middle-earth, it ...